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#10 SOUL Food

SOUL Food, or Stuff Only Us Like, which is consistent with black people’s tendency to shorten words/names/etc., is American style cuisine traditionally associated with African Americans. The word “soul” was and is commonly used to describe black culture, for example soul food, Soul Train, and most recently, Soul Plane, a groundbreaking “black people” film that certainly would have won the award for best writing in a motion picture…. at the 2004 BET Comedy Awards of course…. if not for the steep competition that year of; Head of State, Deliver Us from Eva, Johnson Family Vacation, Malibu’s Most Wanted, and Barbershop 2. The award… went to White Chicks.

Back to the discussion at hand, black people, and their soul food. Stereotypically it is believed that black people adore deep fried chicken, purple and red drinks, and corn bread. This is true. Very true. However, to say black people like chicken is inaccurate. Black people like SOUL Food. Chicken is just a part of it.

Stuff Only Us Like or SOUL Food, was popularized during the 1960’s but it’s origins are believed to go all the way back to the 14th Century. The traditional soul food of today includes but is not limited to; chicken gizzards, chicken livers, chitterlings, corn on the cob, country fried steak, fried chicken, fried fish, fried anything for that matter, ribs, black-eyed peas, not to be confused with the band “Black Eyed Peas,” cabbage, mac and cheese, sweet potatoes, cornbread, hush puppies, biscuits with honey, chow-chow, grits, rice pudding, sweet tea, purple drink, red drink, yellow cake, and of course, an abundant supply of hot sauce.

If you are planning a SOUL Food dinner party, it is a good idea to ask your one black friend which SOUL item’s are still SOUL item’s. Most people have adopted fried chicken and cornbread, but your black friend will certainly tell you, “Purple drink, chicken gizzards, chicken livers, pigs feet, and hoghead cheese dat be stuff only us like.”

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Am I the only one who can not read the first few lines due to an overly large picture of chicken? What a hack website, that I love because this stuff is so funny!!! and I am white, and I love it, and my one black friend loves it too.

Chicken gizzards, chicken livers, chitterlings, pigs feet, and hoghead cheese…..definitely gross. All the other stuff made my mouth water, but those previously listed are dishes I have NEVER gotten into, even tho my step-grandma tried to make me eat it. Stomach is just twistin just thinkin back on it. Ick!

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Another question….what the hell does red taste like? Im a black girl and I still haven’t figured that one out. Yea I love chicken but only the white part (giggles). i dont eat any scraps(chit-lins, hog anything, and I thought gizzards were the trash left over from cleaning the chcken before eatting) and Kool-aid make me sick everytime i try to drink it. But I have some family in the south who will break their necks flying to the table so PREACH brother….You ain’t neva lied!!!!!

I think you all are getting this topic confused with SOUTHERN food in general. Its obvious that the name “soul” food came from black culture its self, but white people from the south have been eating these same dishes just as long as black people have. Maybe, if you traveled around a bit you would see that places like Cracker Barrel, Biscuitville and all of those other country ass restaurants are owned by white and the majority of the customers ARE white people. Very ignorant.

whoa, hold’em down…we as the blacks from the past-had a choice not to eat chittlings and things as a means of nutrition,stayin alive foods was what that was about! As far as the chicken goes…every one likes chicken! Few dont, but why on earth did it have 2 be our flag? Heck I’m BROWN, I’M not BLACK-thats whats wrong with us an the recipes of the pink an orange better known as the caucasion…we let them give us meanings that they try 2 embbed in our heads.
They go an buy much chittlings an other parts of the swine and put high price ingrientents in them and sell the dish for $45- whats up on that! We chose 2 eat what we are- hey if u are a chicken cool- but I much rather eat food for thought!

uhhhhhhhhh we don’t love lil’ wayne…… he fucking sucks. Black people can’t be called brown because mexicans are brown and yeah some of you are black-black…….anyways fried foods and all of this shit are horrible. stfu “bonecrusha” fucking nigger go eat some kfc and drink some purple drank

Scott that is hateful. Read your Bible. I work with a lot of white people and they love soul food. I work at the Fire Department and those white boys cook all the time and nothing but southern food. Scott don’t get you a ticket to hell because you hate black folk. God made us too. You sorry piece of shit.

Soul food-food for the soul. As in food that’s likely horrible on your body (full of fat and all kinds of other crap, which is why fried foods are always thought of as soul foods) but taste effin amazing. Soul food is pretty much comfort food and doesn’t have to be nasty, gross foods like chitlins. Just these gangstas an shznit try to change the meaning of it. Pizza is my soul food, i eat it when i’m sad, and i eat it when i’m happy and it makes me happier.

Hold on just a cotton pickin’ minute. “Soul Food?” Everybody knows only black people like “Soul Food.”

This looks like the kind of dinner my white trash West Virginia hillbilly mama used to cook. Let’s break it down: Fried chicken? Check. Mac&Cheese? Check. Corn? Check. A green veg that’s had the life boiled right out of it? Check. Looks like the only thing(s) missing are a few slices of white bread or corn bread (without sugar!).

But this is Black People food? I’m not black. But I like it. Holy crap. I’m all in a tizzy (<–great white people word) right now because this is unfathomable. I thought this was just "Poor People" food, or maybe even "American Country-style" food.

I don’t think this is a uniquely black thing despite a lot of racial joke about black people and fried chicken. That food in the picture looks delicious and looks like something I regularly would eat for lunch and I am Asian American. I think a lot of soul food really is just southern and country cooking. People outside the South associate it with black culture since black culture originated in the South after all. So a lot of it is just Southern culture. Many country songs mentioned fried chicken. Anyone know the “Country Fried” song by Zac Brown Band? I’ve had someone tell me they were surprised a white band would sing about fried chicken but thats just part of the southern and country lifestyle regardless of race. I would prefer this meal in the picture anyday over sushi or some organic balsamic stuff on the other list.

I’m black and I think most of that stuff is nasty. It also makes you fat. Pepper streak over jasime rick, curry, ox-tails, roasted chicken or duck,french toast,chicken penne and pan-fried noodles.I know some people that eat that stuff. Grape soda is the nastiest drink I ever tasted.

That’s just a fact of livin in tha south Im white and u best believe thats all ive ever eaten in my whole life at home not tha gizards n stuff but ya kno what i mean. I only eat other foods when i go out somewhere. It aint about white n black its just Southern and boy dont it taste good! : d

I’m white. I believe there is a big difference with black and whites. I have noticed black culture is allot more open, honest and authentic with the feelings than the white culture is. That means blacks are closer to the soul/God/Divine love and they care about the community because they know we are all part of divine love(God).

Black people are beautiful people that vibrates divine love and connect with their hearts. That is why when they are into art, music sport etc. it feels like experiencing total harmony with divine love/God. It touches the soul/divine love(God).

White folks are mostly in their heads because of the culture. They care allot about what other people think of them, that is why they act who they are instead of being real.

Both races have something positive to offer and we as a humanity will really evolve when we work together and uplift the community.

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These posts are very stereotypical and racist!! This is NOT true. How can you talk about an entire race based off ONE freind? Get a life and please stop being so immature. I am black and i do not LOVE purple or red drinks, I have long beautiful hair so I do not prefer “weave” or braids, I like all diffirent types of food and I love my MOTHER. And this goes for the rest of my MANy black friends and family members